[Wubi] Re: BIZARRE SITUATION

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sun Dec 20 01:44:15 UTC 2009


On 12/15/2009 10:20 AM, Mischa Falkenburg wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Here's the bizarre situation...at least to me.
> I have a box that has Ubuntu installed within Windows XP on the C drive. 
> Has worked fine for quite a while. Until now. Was working on something 
> from the W-side, and had finished what I wanted and left the room. When 
> I came back, it was in the process of doing a W update. I thought, "I 
> don't need to keep THAT going...", so I initiated a restart since 
> something else needed doing on the Ubuntu side. Rather than GRUB coming 
> up with the usual selections for me to scroll through, it was showing me 
> the Ubuntu version back to 8.04(!), instead of 9.04...
> Normally selecting W XP in grub will then show me the choices of  XP & 
> Ubuntu. Now when I select Ubuntu the following displays:
> 
> Booting 'Ubuntu 8.04.2, kernel 2.6.24-23-generic'
> Filesystem type is ntfs, partition type 0x07
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-23-generic 
> root=UUID=afe0fc43-e49d-4e85-913c-d5a03
> 932b192 ro quiet splash
> Error 15: File not found
> 
> Press any key to continue...
> 
> I'd be REALLY surprised if all the latest data is gone, and that's not 
> what I expect.
> 
> Could anyone steer me in the right direction?
> 
> Booting off the 9.04 disk was tried, but I don't see the choice of 
> repairing a broken system. I can run 8.04 ok, so if I need to open a 
> terminal that shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> Thanks-in-advance,
> Mischa
> 

Not snipping so others can see the full post...

Mischa did you get this sorted out, or do you still need assistance?






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